I’m totally willing to concede this point. I was going off memory, and like I said I don’t typically use a lot of T4s. I also don’t play multiplayer, so I got nothing on that side of things
This, though? Nah. Berserkers are fantastic and the empire & econ bonuses Warlords get can make for perfectly good early games.
Shamans seem so meh. Oh good, a T3 priest. Whoopee. Except they’re surprisingly tough for a support, they get elemental attacks to deal with physical-resistant things, and Entangling Touch is one of the best disables in the game. They’re just good in almost any situation, and you’re never sad to have them. Deceptively effective, says I.
Overall though I could make a gushy fanboy post about every class and race in this game. One of the most impressive achievements Triumph has accomplished is in making everything so fun in its own way.
Give me an Eldritch Horror and I’m a happy man, lol (I love the Dominate skill). The Horned God is quite nice, especially once they get their meatshield/boar, but the issue is Age of Magic; once obtained, Sorcerers will be able to spam their T4s closer to the rate Warlords spam Manticores. Of course, this is a late-game strategy only.
Well, I mentioned it up thread when they had the video reveal of the Dvar but they seem awesome to me. I like the unit design quite a lot, and as a guy that plays Dwarf units and characters in games like these, I expect they will be my first race.
E: Just an FYI, I stumbled on your asking (what looks like) me directly a question by random. If you just reply to the thread I don’t get alerted you addressed me, but if you reply to my own post I will. The odds were good I’d come check this particular thread out though when I saw a new post, so maybe you figured on that. :)
These are the “spells” of the game, you research and can “cast” them in combat and on the game map. The Strategic Ops are the ones you use on the Strategic Map, which is the normal gameplay area, and these are the focus of today’s diary.
Very cool. I like that you first “prime” an operation on the strategy map, allowing you to hold several “primed” and ready to use ops as you wish once you pay for them (unlike in AoW3 when you might have a powerful spell redy to rock but your target wasn’t in place yet, so you had to just wait and not cast anything else until your target was in view).
I’m also a big fan of high level strategy layer maps (see stuff like Warhammer II), and this game has one when you scroll back far enough that looks very useful, even as a work in progress peek.
